Virginia Stage Company has been approved for a $20,000 Art Works grant to support a world premiere theater production by Ronve O'Daniel and Jevares Myrick, co-creators of contemporary hip-hop musical Once Upon A Rhyme: A Musical Tale. Mr. O’Daniel and Mr. Myrick will write a hip-hop musical that will serve as both education and a celebration of the unique history of the Hampton Roads community.
VIRGINIAN-PILOT: VSC mines Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for comedy gold
The Virginia Stage Company’s production of “Sense and Sensibility” tells you immediately that Jane Austen is in for a modern makeover…Yes, this will be Austen’s familiar tale of the Dashwood sisters, who must navigate the waters of wealth, class, heartbreak and love in 1790s England. But it will be told in a raucous way that aims for laughter more than drama, and gets plenty of it.